All modern media companies today have been built by using these kinds of shady "growth hacks."
Doesn't anybody see the irony of Buzzfeed calling out a fellow media company for using such tactics?
Buzzfeed's entire growth strategy for years was copy-pasting content from trending reddit threads and turning them into "listicles" with clickbait headlines, then feeding them into Facebook.
Doesn't anybody see the irony of Buzzfeed calling out a fellow media company for using such tactics?
Buzzfeed's entire growth strategy for years was copy-pasting content from trending reddit threads and turning them into "listicles" with clickbait headlines, then feeding them into Facebook.
Was that not also plagiarism?